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Friday, March 5, 2010

My Unanswered questions in XPages

 Assume that you have a Edit box control named "MyXSPField" on a XPage.
Now If I want to retrieve the value of the same on a button click, I can do it in the following ways,
 i,
   var fieldValue=document.getElementById("#{id:MyXSPField}").value

 ii,
   var computedId= "#{id:MyXSPField}";
   var fieldValue=document.getElementById(computedId).value

But when I attempt to split the parameter as follows, no matter what ever way that I try, which makes sense to me, the attempt fails to give me the field value
 i,
   var editControlName="MyXSPField";
   var computedId= "#{id:"+editControlName+"}";
   var fieldValue=document.getElementById(computedId).value


 ii,
   var editControlName="MyXSPField";
   var fieldValue=document.getElementById("# 
   {id:"+editControlName+"}").value

 iii,
   var editControlName="MyXSPField";
   eval ('var fieldValue=document.getElementById("#
   {id:"+editControlName+"}").value');

 iv,
   var editControlName="MyXSPField";
   eval ('var fieldValue=document.getElementById("# 
   {id:"'+editControlName+'"}").value');

 v,
   I have tried replacing # by $ in all of the above mentioned attempts

Yes.. All of these attempts fail. I understand that I am breaking the EL (expression language) and that might be the issue....

But is there a way to instruct the XPage compiler to complile the dynamically created EL, 'cos this is a real worrying issue







3 comments:

  1. Hi Sir,
    Thanks to your reply,I hope that will be working fine.

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  2. Hello!

    I am with the same problem.
    Did you solve it?

    Regards,
    Thiago

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  3. Nope. Had an opportunity to speak with Philip Ryand (Chief Xpage Architect)and Stephan H. Wissel. They say this is not possible. Seems like we are stuck with it

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